# HFO4/gameboy.live

🕹️ A basic gameboy emulator with terminal "Cloud Gaming" support

Repository: https://github.com/HFO4/gameboy.live
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/gameboylive
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: gameboy, emulator, ascii, ternimal, game
Last push: 2025-04-13T07:31:04+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 30/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 16, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2692, "days_push": 507, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4888, forks 243 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:01.968669+00:00)

## What it is
Gameboy.Live is a Game Boy emulator written in Go that runs games in a desktop GUI or renders them as ASCII in a terminal. It can also act as a telnet 'cloud gaming' server so players can play Game Boy games remotely with no client software beyond telnet.

## Use cases
- play gameboy roms on my desktop
- run a gameboy emulator from the terminal
- host a telnet gameboy server for friends
- play tetris in my terminal over ssh/telnet
- emulate gameboy games in ascii
- self-host a retro gaming server

## When to choose
- you want a lightweight, single-binary Game Boy emulator in Go
- you want to share games via telnet without requiring players to install anything
- you want a fun terminal-based retro gaming demo

## When to avoid
- you need high-accuracy emulation of Game Boy Color, GBA, or advanced hardware features
- you need save states, netplay, or shader/filter support found in mature emulators
- you require legally distributed ROMs - the project ships none

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: game-engine, simulation, gui, cli
- domain: gaming-tools, cross-platform
- platform: windows, cross-platform, cli
- tags: gameboy, emulator, terminal-gaming, telnet-server, retro-gaming, go, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- HFO4/gameboy.live (main) score 30

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:01.968669+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:18:12.609105+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/HFO4/gameboy.live (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:01.968669+00:00, sha feecc589efba)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.